ABOUT MARK DOTY
Award-winning author and poet known for My Alexandria and other AIDS-epidemic-themed works. He was the 2008 recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry.
He attended Drake University and Goddard College. He published his debut poetry collection -- Turtle, Swan -- in 1987.
He taught at many universities, including Princeton, Columbia, and New York University.
His long-term partner, Wally Roberts, died of AIDS in 1994. After Roberts' death, Doty went on to marry Paul Lisicky , whom he divorced in 2013.
He was inspired by the work of William Carlos Williams .
